Improvisaatiota eri muodoissa.
Improvisation in various forms.
FOLLOW
We will come to you
Minifestival
Impro Helsinki
IMPRO HELSINKI MINIFESTIVAL, SATURDAY MAY 24th
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The spring term ends with a bang when Impro Helsinki minifestival will bring on stage all our improv troupes!! There are 4 performance blocks, each with two groups for you to enjoy! The evening will be concluded with our international star guest Sara Šoukal (Slovenia) performing with our favourite Finnish improv musician Hannu Risku.
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The festival will start on Friday night with an improv workshop from our international festival guest Sara Šoukal!
Read more about the workshop here.
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You can get a ticket to an individual performance (including two different groups) or a festival pass to cover allt the shows. Ticket sales are open until the festival on our online store!
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Each performance slot consists of two different shows. The last performance slot of the festival brings English speaking improvised theatre for your enjoyment!
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The first three performance slots of the evening are in Finnish. Click the photos of the groups and read more about the Finnish speaking shows.​​​​​​​
PERFORMANCE no 4 (in ENGLISH)
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at 20.45-22.00 (1h15min)
Digging Deeper Players // Sara Šoukal & Hannu Risku​
Early bird tickets on sale until May 4th. Prices 10€/15€, festival pass 30€ (includes all the performances)
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Impro Helsinki's english speaking ensemble, Digging Deeper players will bring you an energetic improvised show filled with fun and play.
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Sara Šoukal is a well seasoned slovenian improv artist. She is one of the most active and prominent improvisers in Slovenia, working also abroad, in many impro collectives, theaters and associations. In this performance she is joined with the one and only Hannu Risku, a suberb improv musician. Together they will discover magic!
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Photo of Sara Šoukal by Amélie Compère
As an audience member you get to sit in the audience and enjoy the show - we might ask suggestion for the actors inspiration and that is a voluntary way to participate from the audience, when asked. You can take still photos (no flash) in our shows and please tag us when you share in social media! @improhelsinki
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The festival takes place in Nukketeatteri Sampo, downtown Helsinki, Erottajankatu 7. The venue has stairs and is unfortunately not accessable. The cafe of the theatre will be open during the whole festival and you can take drinks also inside the theatre. ​​​
FESTIVAL WORKHSOP: Punk´s Not Dead by Sara Šoukal
Punk´s Not Dead
Improvisational theater has punk in its veins, punk runs through this theater form by default. From the early beginnings of Commedia Dell’ Arte to today’s abundant worldwide improvisational scene, improvisational theater absolutely ticks the viewpoints of punk mentality. In the workshop we will invite our inner punks to come and play, we will question the established ways of improvising, we will challenge the methods of narrative storytelling and at the same time still try and co-operate in an ensemble. How to give space and how to unapologetically take it? We will create space where you will have the freedom to do what you want as you want, while you still construct a scene with your “band” of improvisers on stage. We will find ways and tools to break rules in order to venture into uncharted territories of creative freedom
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Sara Šoukal (Slovenia) is a well seasoned theater artist with years of experience. As an actress and as a pedagogue she is most active in the field of theatrical improvisation, for which she says is her first love. She fell in love with improv when she was 9 years old and they have been together ever since. Her improv aesthetic is poetic, physical, dream-like and full of details. Nothing escapes her eye. She tends to break patterns, she challenges herself and others with bold offers that are out of the box. She is determined to put improvisational theater on the map of theater sub genres as an established and recognized performative art. Lately, she has been setting her foot in other performative fields with great joy and interest. She has been flirting with street theater, devised theater, contemporary dance, object theater and clowning. She is one of the most active and prominent improvisers in Slovenia, working also abroad, in many impro collectives, theaters and associations.
Sara teached and/ or performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.A., etc.
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Workshop will be organized at Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki on Friday, May 23rd from 18-21. There are 14 spots in the workshop. The workshop space is situated on the 3rd floor of the building (no elevator).
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Black and white photo below by Nina Pernat.
